Ukraine prime minister traveling to U.S. for discussions over crisis

11:43 AM,
Mar. 9, 2014

Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will travel to Washington this week to discuss the crisis with Russia over Crimea, international media reported Sunday.

Yatsenyuk announced his trip Sunday -- the same day he vowed that Ukraine won't give up "an inch" of its territory to Russia, Radio Free Europe reported.

"I am going to the United States to hold top-level meetings on resolving the situation unfolding in our bilateral and multilateral relations," Yatseniuk said at the start of a government meeting in Kiev, according to a Reuters report. ...